Don’t get mad at me about it, I didn’t originally state it.
SCOTUS did. SCOTUS also recognized that hindsight is 20/20 and that the benchmark for judging whether an officer’s actions wered correct is based on what another reasonable officer with similiar amount of training and experience would do in a similiar situation. Not what YOU would do, but what an officer would do.
The police also keep their own counsel on how to handle use of force situations which mean their instructors are almost exclusively police officers who have been to the mountain and seen the bear. This is done by design since any use of force judicial proceedings will most certainly attack the training of the officer. It would be embarrasing for someone to admit they had never themselves been in an arrest situation that resulted in force. Expert use of force witnesses are also almost exclusively former or active police officers.
” The police also keep their own counsel on
how to handle use of force situations
which mean their instructors are almost
exclusively police officers who have been
to the mountain and seen the bear.”
That is part of the problem. When an orginization is allowed to make their own rules, permissiveness abounds. It allowed the Dorner shooting mistakes, among a great many others, to go unpunished. That isn’t acceptable.
And regardless of what cops think, we will get tired of the nonsense they dish out. LE is out of control with violence. LE was comissioned to protect people from violent predators, not to be them.